Book awards: The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), The List 100 Best Scottish Books, Guardian 1000 (Science Fiction & Fantasy), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition),

Dedication: To Katharine De MattosIt's ill to loose the bands that God decreed to bind;Still will we be the children of the heather and the wind,Far away from home, O it's still for you and meThat the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie.

First words: Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scant and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow

Quotations: With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge do

Last words: Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.